The First Responders (The Police Station Next to the Fire Station / Sobangseo Yeob Kyungchalseo / 소방서 옆 경찰서)

THE FIRST RESPONDERS

ALL CHARACTERS, LOCATIONS, ORGANIZATIONS, INCIDENTS, GROUPS,

AND BACKGROUNDS DEPICTED IN THIS DRAMA ARE ENTIRELY FICTITIOUS

Dispatch for Taewon 32 Fire Crew.

A fire at a container diner in 38 Mountain, Dongju-dong.

Dispatch for Taewon 32 Fire Crew.

A fire at a container diner in 38 Mountain, Dongju-dong.

Dispatch for fire, rescue, and medical teams!

Dongwoo.

- Let's get it done quickly! - Yes!

TAEWON FIRE HOUSE

There seems to be a lot of smoke.

Oh, dear. That will at least take two hours.

It might be tough.

FIRE AT AN ABANDONED CONTAINER DINER

EMERGENCY CODE INDICATING FIRE

This way! Come this way!

Darn it.

Hurry up.

SEOUL FIREFIGHTERS

-Let me go check. -Fire's spreading,

and the back routes are all blocked

-for us to enter. -Fire crew, arrived.

-Kisoo. -Yes?

-Radio the current situation. -Yes, sir.

- Baek Inju! - Yes?

- Take out a water hose. - Yes, sir!

Water hose, coming.

Kisoo, assist me.

Taewon Pump, turn on the water!

Spraying!

CONSTRUCTION DINER

The flames are too strong.

Dojin, should I spray water from the side?

Yes, I'll get the fire spot in the center.

Go and cool down the gas.

Yes, sir.

- Inju! Assist him. - Yes?

- Pump the water! - Pumping!

Mr. Baek!

There's 40-ton toluene tank next to the paint factory.

If it blows up, the whole area will be damaged.

What, toluene?

There are 40-ton of toluene.

Considering the current wind speed,

its toxic gas could spread tens of kilometers away.

If it leads to a mountain fire, the nearby apartments will be in danger.

A toluene tank at the one o'clock direction!

Stop the fire from spreading!

- Run! - Yes, ma'am!

Myeongpil, come here.

Yes!

The flames are getting stronger!

When did you get here?

I heard something earlier.

Is anyone inside?

Then they would've come outside to evade the fire.

Someone's inside! Call the medical team now.

-Paramedics! Here! -Hurry!

- Dongwoo, let's go. - Okay.

- Stand by here. - Okay.

If there's smoke, people usually hide in a corner.

Check the corners.

I found him!

- Let's lift him. One, two, three. - Two, three.

Let's move him.

Gosh. He's darn heavy.

The container might blow up at this rate.

-Inju, get the fire spot. -Yes, sir.

Chief, the air's getting sucked in, and the fire's dark red.

The internal temperature must be about 600.

The container could blow up at this rate.

We must lower it.

Will you be able to go inside?

Only if we discharge the smoke.

Let's remove the roof and pour water to get the smoke out.

No, that's too dangerous.

No, we can do it.

Kisoo! We're going up the roof. Get ready!

- Yes, sir! - Inju, get ready!

Give me the power cutter!

Okay!

Here you go.

Give me the ax!

Yes, sir.

Give me the water hose!

- Turn on the water! - Turning on!

Dojin, come down! The roof might cave in!

Oxygen's dropping.

Dojin! It might cave in for real!

It can last a little longer!

Just untangle the water hose first!

- Kisoo, go down. - I won't go down alone!

It's dangerous, so go down already!

- Now! - Yes, sir.

Untangle it now!

Untangle the water hose!

It's entangled there!

Untangle the hose!

Water hose, untangled!

The fire's slowing down!

Go in once we've cooled down the gas!

- Get ready to enter! - Yes, sir!

The patient inhaled toxic gas.

We'll give him oxygen as we transfer him.

Taewon fire crew, report your status.

Bong Dojin, clear!

Choi Kisoo, clear!

Lee Jihoon, clear!

Baek Inju, clear!

Okay, let's get the embers now.

Stay away from the walls. They might cave in.

Yes, sir.

- Jihoon, come here when you're done. - Yes?

Yes, sir.

Stop! Stop spraying!

What is it?

-Jeez! -What?

I guess we were too late.

Call the police.

Yes, sir.

The body was found as the fire at the diner was put out.

The identity and age are unknown. We assume it's a male.

The posture is a little odd.

It's called a pugilistic posture.

It's because the heat denatured the protein in the body.

It may not be a proper comparison,

but when you grill pork belly, it shrinks round.

It's similar to that.

Gosh, today's lunch menu is stir-fried pork belly.

Will you focus?

Let's start with the neck.

Will you turn off the lights?

UV light.

It's fluorescent.

MATERIAL WITH FLUORESCENCE

What's that?

It's the leftover of a burned string.

It got stuck on his skin due to the fire

and wasn't visible, because it was hidden in his neck wrinkle.

A foreign substance on a neck can be critical.

Because the neck is most directly related to life

after the heart.

Give me a scalpel.

Opening up chest and abdominal cavities.

Give me the rib shears.

A MEDICAL TOOL TO CUT BONES

Opening up the bronchus.

The bronchus barely has any soot.

This is unexpected.

If one dies due to a fire, they breathe in smoke,

which makes their bronchi black.

But his bronchus is not.

It means he wasn't breathing during the fire.

Let's collect the heart blood.

The soot in your nose means you're alive.

And he was already dead when the fire broke out.

Tell them to identify him with his DNA.

It's the reconstruction data of his cervical vertebrae.

Do you see the broken hyoid bone here?

It means he was choked to death strongly enough

for his hyoid bone to break.

He died of asphyxiation

and neck compression by an unidentified string.

He was strangled to death.

In short, possible murder.

The body was burned too severely that nothing about the culprit was left.

The only thing that the autopsy can tell us is how it happened.

He was strangled first,

and the fire broke out afterward.

Could they have started a fire to get rid of evidence?

If an autopsy can tell a murderer's intention,

you won't be needed.

We have identified the victim. He's Bang Pilgu, aged 57.

But check this out.

FINE 300 SENTENCE 1 YEAR

He had 13 previous convictions.

And he'd recently gotten released.

This case has been changed to a murder case.

Let's go.

I asked you to come over to let you know of something in advance, prosecutor.

FIRE AT AN ABANDONED CONTAINER DINER, A DEAD BODY WAS FOUND

Seeing how you called me over alone,

I guess it's for something trivial

or something unusual.

Prosecutor Yeom Sanggu, a great man like you

shouldn't be cleaning up the mess of what is transferred to you.

It's about time you designed one yourself.

This right here will help you show your presence to the world.

Don't tell me you're still putting out the fire.

Can't you see? We're investigating the fire.

How naive of you.

This was murder by arson, right?

How did you know?

-Hey, did you tell him? -No.

There, there,

and there.

There are at least three ignition points.

Multiple ignition points are direct evidence of arson.

So, someone sprinkled a flammable here three times?